Behind Scene

An exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick"s horror film, The Shining (1980).

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Documentary on the making of "The Sacrifice."

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography, illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Do the Right Thing (1989).

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky"s ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel.

The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.

A documentary on Steven Spielberg, filmmaker. Includes interviews with relatives, film critics, peers and people who have worked with him.

Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut"s 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.

A documentary about writer and director Brian De Palma.

While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn"t be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong - though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways - and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.

The story of Z Channel, one of the first U.S. pay cable stations and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974 in LA, their eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

A chronicle of the making of Ingmar Bergman"s Oscar winning film.

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock"s Psycho (1960), the "man behind the curtain", and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.

A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.

A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

Vilgot Sjöman (I Am Curious -- Yellow 1967) and a crew from Swedish Television followed Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Winter Light and came away with a five-part documentary, including set construction, rehearsals, editing, and behind-the-camera conversations with Bergman and the cast and crew, and audience reactions to the film.

A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).

DoP Robby Müller has inspired generations with his ground-breaking camerawork. Director Claire Pijman had access to his personal archive to create an extraordinary film essay that intertwines archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre.

A documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi.

At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy"s work - vulnerability, insecurity and mortality - spill over into his creative process.

Filmed in wartime and edited by candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov"s rarely seen masterwork tells of his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was arrested by KGB, at the height of his fame, for the outspoken criticism of the Soviet regime. Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film, The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d"oeuvre Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates) - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals a shocking secret request Parajanov sent him in an unpublished 1974 letter from the Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov"s camera documents Parajanov"s staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - the original camera negative of which survives in Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by the American and European critics, is Vartanov"s exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema"s greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

The film shows the unique world of artist Sergei Parajanov, whose brilliant images in films and collages aroused the suspicion of Soviet authorities.

Filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.